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Date/Time: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 21:35:25 +0000
Post From: Reporting long running issues and design flaws with Chart Studies window
| [2023-06-13 08:10:41] |
| User61168 - Posts: 403 |
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Hello SC Support/Engineering, I am reporting the following issues which exists in the platform for atleast 2+ years: 1) Whenever I add a new study to my collection that is applied to a chart, then if I hit apply without saving the collection, the file name of the study collection disappears and goes blank! This has been happening for last 3+ years. I am feeling the frustration to get this fixed in the next release. 2) When I add a study collection ending with a + (to append/merge study collections), the original study collection name gets overridden with the new collection (the one ending in +). This is just wrong so it has to be a bug. This is also happening since last 2+ yrs. 3) It is just nuts to not have the ability to "Open" a study collection outside of Analysis selection menu. My Analysis menu is completely tapped out with too many collections in the data folder. I have reported this issue in the past and I realize you are working on a new and improved design of the studies window. In the interim, could you please add a "Open Study" button next to "save all" button as a quick and simple fix in next release? 4) "Save Single" button should always ask for the name of study collection instead of overriding the entire existing study collection name. In the current design, I ironically have to save the original study collection name, enter new collection name for single study and then paste the original collection name back. It's just silly UX design imo 5) It is crucial that you prevent deleting of a study in a study collection that has been password protected. It defeats the purpose of putting a password if it can be deleted. My wish list of design improvements to incorporate in the future versions: a) Include a "Enable All / Disable All" studies command button feature similar to Hide/unHide all b) Include a "Ignore All subgraphs" buttom to ignore all studies subgraphs in a collection c) If a study is "hidden". perhaps grey it out in the chart studies window for a quick visual d) Every study available within SC must have a Enable/Disable feature. There are just too many studies that uselessly take up CPU when added to a collection. This is a must to improve CPU and Memory utilization without removing the required studies from the collection. e) Every chart and chartbook should have to "disconnect from data feed" feature. In the current design, there is no much wastage of pure processing power on charts that are open but not used/referenced within a chart book. This will drastically improve overall performance of sierra chart f) In relation to #e above, if I have a session window of just one hour, there is no point in feeding data to that chart for 23 hours outside of the session window. This is unnecessarily taking up valuable computing power. g) Remove the "send trade orders to trade service" feature from all trading studies. It makes SDLC management of trading strategies hard to move from development to production environment forcing two separate versions of each study collection and it is a unnecessary protection. Any automated trading trader should know never to co-mingle simulated trading with production/live trading instance of SC. h) Save Last 5 frequently used study collections. The Analysis window shows all study collection in alphabetical order which is painful. It should be sorted based on last modified date. i) Provide a "undo" and "redo" edit button for Alert formula window similar to MS Word or Excel that remembers the history of edits. It will be very powerful tool to make edits, test and undo changes in alert formula without saving code in notepad++ etc j) Implement a (optional) master password for the entire platform to protect important configuration settings. k) Implement a (optional) password protection for all Chart and Chartbook settings. |